Dr. James H Doundoulakis

Dr. Doundoulakis created a cap for a front tooth 31 years ago. The cap is still going strong and cannot differentiate between the capped tooth and the natural teeth. His work was superb.

UPDATE and clarification. I visited Dr. Doundoulakis's office three times, the first visit mere weeks subsequent to vast and traumatic harms inflicted by the general dentist Christine Skordeles. Dr. Doundoulakis prepared an extensive written treatment plan for me. Plan A: Redo the general dentist's upper-mouth work, back-wiring it to stabilize it. Plan B: Should the back-wiring fail, edentate (remove) all my upper front teeth, replacing the natural teeth with a row of implants. Dr. Doundoulakis handed me a $35,000+ invoice. I paid him, using my Chase credit card, a first installment of $15,000+. After my 2nd visit to his office—two visits in which he did no treatment, provided no cautions, and refused to reply to direct queries re Skordeles’s work—a grotesque and protruding CEREC crown placed by Skordeles failed, snapping the underlying canine at the gum-line. During my 3rd visit to his office, Dr. Doundoulakis did what he termed a "three-point glue-job" on that fail, sending me home with the broken CEREC crown jammed into my upper mouth, jutting out at a wild angle. Disturbed by these circumstances, I sought a second opinion. It was this: Plan A was not likely to succeed, and had never been likely to succeed, even before the canine fail. Then—to my astonishment—examination of Dr. Doundoulakis's treatment plan revealed that, without proper HIPAA authorization, he had disclosed to several other practitioners—including the offending practitioner Christine Skordeles—an apparently fictional characterization of my psychiatric diagnosis. He included a list of the psychiatric medications I was taking. Dr. Doundoulakis possessed no HIPAA authorization to disclose this information, and it is not clear to me where he obtained the diagnosis. Certainly he did not communicate with, nor reply to, my mental-health treatment team, which reached out to him repeatedly. It's of the utmost importance to understand that medical practitioners are forbidden by law to prattle psychiatric diagnoses and/or psychiatric-medication regimes—fictional or otherwise—to whomever they please, without explicit, highly specific, HIPAA authorization from the patient. Based on Dr. Doundoulakis's astonishing treatment plan, and the poor quality of his temporary work, I exited his care. I am under the treatment of the prosthodontist Dr. Michael Bruno—my top oral surgeon’s “first choice”—who has saved the functionality and appearance of my mouth. Work is ongoing, but the present and the future are bright. Please note: Dr. Doundoulakis did in fact refund my first $15,000+ payment. Please note also: Months after I exited Dr. Doundoulakis's care, his office contacted me with a request to please sign the required HIPAA authorization forms, retroactively. I invite you to consider the possibility that Dr. Doundoulakis's reply to my initial review is a deliberate falsehood. Please, I caution you: Don’t trust your appearance, and your very ability to eat, to Dr. James Doundoulakis. Who I am. I hold the MBA and PhD from Columbia University’s Graduate School of business. I am 20 years a tenured professor of Accounting. I am President of my cooperative apartment building. My father was a doctor, like his father before him. Grandpa made his house calls on a bicycle. My mother was a full professor of nursing at the University of Michigan. My older brother was an AIDS doctor from the beginning of the crisis. I am a colon cancer survivor: Doctors saved my life. I grew up hearing occasional cynicism about the medical profession, yes. But nothing prepared me for Dr. James Doundoulakis. In all my 67 years, I had only experienced, and continue to experience, the highest standards of ethical comportment and care for “the patient first.” I was not aware that such as Dr. Doundoulakis were even a possibility. UPDATE and clarification. I visited Dr. Doundoulakis's office three times, the first visit mere weeks subsequent to vast and traumatic harms inflicted by the general dentist Christine Skordeles. Dr. Doundoulakis prepared an extensive … More

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